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Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Today is my 4th Blogiversay so let's celebrate

When I set up this blog 4 years ago I honestly never expected it to grow to the extent that it has as thought I'd probably only get a few views each week, if I was lucky, from family or friends. I certainly never expected the blog to have had almost 460,000 page views to date, receive some of the fabulous books I've received over the years nor get the chance to meet or interact with so many lovely authors, fellow bloggers and bookworms.

As I have done with previous years I will be running a series of giveaways, starting today until the end of the month, but I've also decided to do a guest feature where readers, bloggers and authors talk about their favourite book which came about as a result of today's giveaway package inspired by my favourite book Little Women.

It's a book I first discovered as a teenager after receiving a copy for my birthday, and was the first classic book that I had ever read as like many other teenagers of my generation I loved nothing more than getting stuck into the likes of books from Jilly Cooper or Jackie Collins, so the idea of reading a book about life in the olden days didn't really appeal. But how wrong was I as I soon found myself immersed into the lives of the March women especially Jo. It made me appreciate how far life had changed for women and the opportunities that we had compared to the days when Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women.

I've lost count of the number of times I have re-read Little Women over the years, but it's definitely the book I've read the most, in fact it's quite rare that I re-read any books as there's normally a new book out that I want to read. So because Little Women is my all-time favourite book I decided to compile a feature Little Women giveaway package comprising of a tote bag with a quote from Louisa May Alcott, paperback of Little Women plus a DVD of the 1994 film starring Winona Ryder as Jo.

Enter via the form below to win this Little Women package, the winner will be selected by Rafflecopter on 31st October and contacted for their postal address to enable me to post these goodies to you.

Little Women was one of my favourite childhood reads, Sharon, and I enjoyed reading it again with my daughter. I loved Jo and very much wanted to be a March sister! (It even gets a mention in my last book.) Happy blog anniversary!